Fireflies.ai has unveiled its first hardware device, Fireflies Fly, alongside an expansion of its Fred AI assistant into email, scheduling, screen recording and workplace automation. Fly attaches to the back of a phone and is designed to take notes from phone calls, WhatsApp calls and in-person conversations.
The announcements broaden Fireflies’ focus beyond meeting transcription, bringing more of the work before and after a meeting into the same platform. The new experience launches on November 12, although several features will roll out over the coming weeks. Fly is expected to become available in early 2027.
Fireflies Fly: What the Phone Accessory Does
Fly is a compact device designed to capture conversations for note-taking across calls and face-to-face interactions. Its support for phone and WhatsApp calls gives it a different use case from a meeting assistant that joins scheduled video calls on a laptop.
Fireflies has opened a waitlist for Fly, but has not announced its price, India-specific availability or detailed hardware specifications. Battery life, phone compatibility and storage details are also absent from the announcement. Users will need to inform participants when recording and follow applicable recording rules, the company says.
Fred Adds Email, Slack and Automation Tools
Alongside the hardware preview, Fireflies is expanding Fred into an assistant that can draw on meetings, messages, documents and connected apps. Users can ask it to find information, prepare for calls and carry out tasks across supported services. The platform now connects to more than 240 tools, according to the company.
Email assistance includes inbox organisation and drafting replies and follow-ups for review. In Slack, Fred can summarise channels and long threads, highlight missed updates and respond to requests for research or reports. Its knowledge search can also return answers from connected workplace information with links to the original sources.
Several other additions cover routine work around meetings and documentation:
| Tool | Main Function |
|---|---|
| Fireflies Scheduler | Shareable booking links and requests to schedule, move or block meetings |
| Fireflies Talk | Voice typing, with a Command Mode for spoken requests |
| Fireflies Clips | Screen recording with transcripts, notes and generated step-by-step guides |
| FredBots | Ongoing tasks such as competitor monitoring and customer feedback reports |
| Voice Agents | Calls for tasks including candidate screening, customer support and user interviews |
Meeting notes remain part of the platform, with support for Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. Fireflies also offers bot-free capture through its desktop app, while Live Assist provides real-time answers, coaching and translation during calls. Daily briefs and meeting preparation pull together relevant information from calendars, previous discussions, emails and messages.
Fireflies Pricing and Rollout
Fireflies offers a free plan with meeting notes and core features, including scheduling, voice typing and screen recording as those capabilities become available. Paid plans start at $10 per user per month when billed annually. Additional capabilities include email and Slack assistants, Voice Agents, FredBots and connected tools, subject to usage credits.
FredBots begin becoming available on November 12, while Scheduler and Clips are scheduled to start rolling out over the next couple of weeks. Waitlists are open for all three tools and Fly, so the announcement does not mean every feature is immediately available to all users.
With Fred gaining access to more workplace information, Fireflies says it does not use customer content to train generative AI models and contractually prohibits its vendors from doing so. Administrators can manage access and retention, while Enterprise customers can keep supported data in their own cloud storage buckets through Private Storage.
